Luring Stem Cells into Wounds

Specially engineered hydrogels can be loaded with growth factors that attract stem cells for wound healing, says Rice University scientists. “It should be possible to create bandages using this new material that would motivate the body’s own mesenchymal stem cells to gather around the bandage and quickly heal the wound beneath. The material would then degrade and disappear into the body, without having to be painfully pulled off as is common with most bandages.” MORE